I. Prologue
II. Fire
III. Ash
IV. Land
V. Trade
VI. Marble
VII. Water
VIII. Grime
IX. Firemen
X. People
XI. Retreat
XII. Rebirth
Daniel S. Levy is a senior writer for Life Books, which is part of
Dotdash Meredith Premium Publishing. He has written on such topics
as World War I, Anne Frank, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the
Civil War, Robert F. Kennedy and the Women of the Bible. Prior to
that he was a senior reporter at Time magazine where he covered
architecture and classical music, and a reporter at People
magazine, where he wrote about social
issues and crime. In 1997 Levy wrote Two-Gun Cohen, a biography of
Morris Cohen, an English adventurer who became a general in the
Chinese army, fought the Japanese during World War II and following
the war was one of the few people who was
able to travel between Communist China and Taiwan.
A superb work of urban history that crackles with the heat and
smoke of Manhattan's devastating fires and probes the genius,
vision—sometimes villainy—of the men who shaped its destiny during
these crucial years. Daniel Levy's infectious love for his native
city infuses every line.
*Tom Sancton, author of The Bettencourt Affair and The Lost
Baron*
A captivating history that shows how modern New York City emerged
from an early-nineteenth-century whirlwind of fire and disease,
riot and racism, construction and demolition, and general
mayhem.
*Fran Leadon, author of Broadway: A History of New York City in
Thirteen Miles*
Nineteenth-century New York both embodied America and transcended
it. Manhattan Phoenix is a vivid account of the city in the years
leading through the Civil War, and Daniel Levy has seamlessly woven
a history that reveals how it became a major world center while
combating plagues, fires and election fraud. Manhattan Phoenix
shows why New York is unique and how it became so.
*Richard Stengel, author of Information Wars and Mandela's Way*
This is a well-researched account.
*Choice*
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